September 11th… 8 Years Later…
Here we are… The 8th Anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks against the United States of America, and the only thing that I’ve read today is some lame article on CNN about some U.S. Coast Guard exercise in the Potomac that scared the Secret Service, and in turn the United States, that Obama was under attack.
We’re that scared of the sound of gunfire that we don’t even know when it’s real.
I really do hope that people are not forgetting the sadness of this day and just how horrific the attacks were.
As I said in my post last year on this topic… I’m not sure that we shall ever see the media blitz that covered the airwaves on 09/11/01 and in 02, 03, and I think even in 04 while the media was still interested. ’05 showed a sharp decline in coverage, ’06 less, don’t even remember ’07, and here we are. Today. 09/11/08. Where’s the coverage? Where’s the interest? Where’s America?
In the months after the attacks on that dreadful day people all over the United States Americans stuck flags on their car antennas, bumper stickers, shirts, houses, jackets, everything. You could not look anywhere and NOT see an American flag. Notice I didn’t say “Americans stuck flags…” I’d be insulting all those illegal aliens I witnessed in my old neighborhood of East Elmhurst putting out flags and wearing “our Colors” even while the Country may not have wanted them around – immigration and what not. People all over the United States cried for weeks and swore never to forget, blah blah blah.
Well. Here we are 8 years later. 09/11. Forgotten.
Every year on this day I share MY STORY about what happened on that day, and I ask everyone to remember what happened, where they were, what they saw, who they were next to, at the moments when the airplanes ripped through the World Trade Center towers and in the minutes after each tower collapsed. I was running for my life. I was scared.
This year I’d like you to take your family out to Dinner today, tomorrow, sometime this weekend, or a nice lunch (or Brunch for those of you socialites) and just be together. After you are done go out and walk around your neighborhood for 9 minutes using your usual paths when you walk around the neighborhood. Then stop, and turn around, and find a new way to get around and walk for 11 minutes.
Think of everything you see and wonder to yourself what’d be like for your family to walk these streets without you. That’s what most of the victims of 09/11, the one’s that are still alive and lost someone that day, feel every day.
I hope, as I usually say, that I don’t offend anyone that will read my story, but it is what it is, and it’s what I wrote.
09/11 – We Will Never Forget…
Please read… September 11th – My Story…
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